Senior Executive Director - Youth Detention Operations & Reform, Youth JusticeZZZ

The Senior Executive Director, Youth Detention Operations and Reform key responsibilities are:Stakeholder and outcome• Provide high-quality advice and information to the Director-General, Minister and other members of the department's Board of Management on matters relating to youth detention operations and service delivery, infrastructure strategy for current and new youth detention centres, youth detention practice and quality assurance, and youth detention workforce, safety and reform.• Provide strategic leadership to youth detention centres, including executive management and all youth detention staff who provide frontline service delivery to young people in youth detention.• Lead the provision of effective, efficient and responsive services through the development and implementation of sound contemporary services and practices, policies and procedures, and business systems.• Productive relationships with peak and representative bodies and industrial organisations to ensure that programs and services are high quality and that emerging issues and trends and opportunities for improvement and innovation are identified.• Actively participate in and, where appropriate, support high level forums and committees with government and non-government stakeholders.• Develop and implement processes to monitor, evaluate, report on and improve service and practice quality, performance and productivity.• Drive practices and work collaboratively across the government, non-government and private sector, to implement the department's strategic direction ensuring it is aligned with the Government's objectives and commitments.Internal business• Provide high level and specialist advice and information to the Director-General and Minister along with other members of the department's Board of Management on youth detention operations and reform.• Provide superior and decisive workforce leadership, ensuring that management and the youth detention operations and reform workforce has the capability to deliver efficient, open and accountable, and best practice youth detention, reform and infrastructure services.• Lead the investigation of important organisational issues and stimulate the development of strategies to resolve problems affecting youth detention centre operations.• Play a key leadership role in promoting a collaborative approach to industrial relations.• Actively contribute as a member of the department's Board of Management in developing an inclusive, diverse and collaborative culture, ensuring a high standard of accountability and performance.• Ensure that an environment of ethical decision-making exists and is maintained as the context of achieving organisational goals.• Foster a culture of best practice and co-design within a high-performing, highquality, outcomes-focused environment.Financial• Effective oversight and monitoring of division's budget and resourcing in accordance with statutory responsibilities, government decisions and guidelines, and departmental policies and procedures.• Effective oversight of government's investment in youth detention operations, programs, services and facilities.• Ensure that Youth Detention Operations and Reform contributes to the achievement of the department's purpose and priorities, and its statutory and other accountabilities.Learning and growth• Contribute to building and sustaining cultural capability, to support the vision and strategic objectives of the department.• Demonstrate behaviours that reflect public service values and ethics.• Plan, organise and manage the division's responsibilities, including fostering a professional environment that values performance, ethical behaviour, staff wellbeing, capability development, professional growth, continuous improvement and best practice outcomes.Please refer to Senior Executive Director - Youth Detention Operations and Reform attachment for more position specific information and details on how to apply.Applications to remain current for 12 months.Job Ad Reference: QLD/576338/24Closing Date: Friday, 19th July 2024